Teaching Gallery: Picturing Poverty

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

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Teaching Gallery: Picturing Poverty
October 9, 2007–October 28, 2007
White Gallery, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Selected for Hemenway, LA&S 301 Learning Communities Seminar: End of Global Poverty in conjuction with End Global Poverty Week (Oct 15th -19th). Students in learning community contacted the museum to work with us on this topic and they promoted the installation campus-wide.

Works of art

This I Believe, Norman Strike
Norman Strike
At the Time of the Louisville Flood, Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White
The Unsafe Tenement, James Abbott McNeill Whistler
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
The Gleaners, Jean François Millet
Jean François Millet
The Gleaners, 1856
The family of a migratory fruit worker from Tennessee now camped in a field near the packinghouse at Winter Haven, Florida, Arthur Rothstein
Arthur Rothstein
Asleep on Fire Escape During Heat Spell, Weegee
Weegee
untitled, Jim Goldberg
Jim Goldberg
untitled, 1979
Unemployed Man, Cologne, August Sander; Gunther Sander
August Sander; Gunther Sander
Robert Evans and his family, Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus
The da Silva Family at Dawn, Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks
Madonna of the Tenement, Lewis Wickes Hine
Lewis Wickes Hine
New York, 1956-58 (This woman received $30.00 per month in Social Security benefits. She paid from it her rent and utilities. One dollar was left over on which she lived. She was seeking old age...), Marion Palfi
Marion Palfi